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Sunday dev challenge: how many free APIs can you chain together?

Here's one pipeline:
1. curl https://mating-liable-folk-fabulous.trycloudflare.com/uuid → get unique ID
2. curl https://mating-liable-folk-fabulous.trycloudflare.com/hash/sha256/$(uuid) → hash it
3. curl https://mating-liable-folk-fabulous.trycloudflare.com/base64/encode/$(hash) → encode it

All free, no signup, no API key.

Try it:
curl https://mating-liable-folk-fabulous.trycloudflare.com/uuid

What's your favorite no-signup API?

@selfhosted

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I set up a quick demonstration to show risks of curl|bash and how a bad-actor could potentially hide a malicious script.

It’s nothing new or groundbreaking, but I figure it never hurts to have another reminder.

Hahahaha noticed this too. 1.5 was where it was at tho

I think the general response is from confusion over what you could possibly have been using the url bar for in your browser if you didn’t know you could put urls there.

PodOsef is an MP3-first podcast publishing system: drop MP3s into a folder, it generates HTML + RSS. No DB, the MP3 metadata is the source of truth. Also supports an archive mode that watches a main feed and mirrors episodes. Repo + write-up:

https://meirz.net/2026/02/22/podosef-mp3-first-lightweight-simple-podcast-publishing-system/

Thank you.

After feedback on artwork, one of my friends gave me new artwork for the podOsef. I updated the post and source code.

You should have all kinds of options on Lemmy… You can edit a post and change it to whatever you like. Or delete it and optionally post a new one…

e it and optionally post a

Thank you, I’ll delete and report.

Hey all,

I’m setting up a homeserver and trying to figure out the best way to access it remotely. I’ve been looking at different solutions, but I’m a little stuck.

I’ve been looking at VPNs, but it feels weird, to route everything through my home IP when I’m also trying to use a commercial VPN for privacy / to combat services fingerprinting me based on my IP.

I’m currently considering a reverse proxy setup with an authentication provider like authentik or authelia, but as far as I understand, that wouldn’t work well with accessing services through an app on my mobile device (like for jellyfin music for example.) I did think about just opening up the ports and using a DDNS with a reverse proxy, but is’nt that like a big security risk?

Keep in mind I am no network admin, but I don’t have anything against learning if someone can point me in the right direction.

Also I heard some people say that on proxmox you should use unprivileged containers instead of vms for your services, does that hold up?

Any recommendations for tools or approaches?

That’s a bummer. It’s great for this stuff, don’t need processing power or memory, and I don’t really care if it got nuked for some reason

This is the best option if you don’t want to manage your own VPN server.

Just to start off, know that I have zero experience with this. I’m only looking into doing this because I’m absolutely sick and tired of centralised services (in this case Discord) turning to shit, and want to start a Discord-like/alternative federation between my friends.

Prosody seems to be the easiest to set up, and has all the available capabilities for a server that allows Discord-like functionality (text, group voicecall, streaming). Movim is the client that makes use of all that.

But I don’t have a clue how to set up a Prosody server with Podman. I’ve never done this before. I started by downloading the Prosody image through Podman, then tried running it, which prompted the creation of a container. Kept everything at the defaults and tried running it, but it didn’t work.

What do I do from here?

I mean, difficulty is relative mate. I just said I couldn’t get Snikket working (after multiple tries, too) but I’ve spun up both matrix servers. So I’d personally say it’s harder.

I’d be interested in seeing that, or at least knowing which ejabberd container you chose and why.

Any experiences with a self-hosted assistant like the modern Google Assistant? Looking for something LLM-powered that is smarter than older assistants that would just try to call 3rd party tools directly and miss or misunderstand requests half of the time.

I’d like integration with a mobile app to use it from the phone and while driving. I see Home Assistant has an Android Auto integration. Has anyone used this, or another similar option? Any blatant limitations?

But what’s acting like the little box in your house that listens like an Amazon echo?

It’s gotten better. Which is to say, it’s almost feature compatible with the old assistant. But you can also give it context. So for example, if you say “remind me X”, you can get it to automatically remind you tomorrow with an alert at 9am, unless you specify a different time. And it’s ok if you screw up the phrasing a bit.

But DIY is infinitely better. If you have the resources.

iGoogle inspired start page with tabs support and built in RSS reader, weather, quote of the day widgets which can be resized and positioned around, couple customisation options are available as well. I was missing such type of app ever since iGoogle stopped being available, so here it is. There are probably some bugs lurking around which i’ll try fix in coming days/weeks but it’s usable for now.

Full disclosure, app was created with massive aid of LLMs (mainly Claude Sonnet)

dogshit logo

I’m still looking for the dogshit logo.

What the fuck are y’all on? That’s Samurai band logo from Cyberpunk 2077. Here’s the artist link https://www.artstation.com/marekbrzezinski

Hi, c/selfhosted! This is my first post on Fediverse and I am glad to be making it here.

I recently got fed up with having to using Tailscale to access my server at home and decided to expose it publicly. A friend recommended segregating the server into a dedicated VLAN. My router’s stock firmware does not allow that, so I flashed OpenWrt on it (I am amazed how simple and easy the process was).

Getting the router to actually assign an IP address to the server was quite a headache (with no prior experience using OpenWrt), but I managed to do it at the end with a help from a tutorial video on YouTube.

Now, everything is working perfectly fine and as I’d expect, except that all requests’ IP addresses are set to the router’s IP address (192.168.3.1), so I am unable to use proper rate limiting and especially fail2ban.

I was hoping someone here would have an experience with this situation and help me.

Yeah, Tailscale’s “zero-config” idea is great as long as things actually work correctly… But you immediately run into issues when you need to configure things, because Tailscale locks you out of lots of important settings that would otherwise be accessible.

For instance, the WiFi at my job blocks all outbound WireGuard connections. Meaning I can’t connect to my tailnet when I’m at work, unless I tether to my personal cell phone (which has a monthly data cap). Tailscale is built on WireGuard, and WireGuard only. If I could swap it to use OpenVPN or IKEv2 instead, I could bypass the problem entirely. But instead, I’m forced to just run an OpenVPN server at home, and connect using that instead of using Tailscale.

Wow, there’s a lot going on in there.

I have a Hugo blog I’m setting up to work on my own forgejo server flow instead of through Github Pages.

I hate how pictures work on Hugo so I was going to just host them on a separate thing and embed the images that way.

Now I’m over thinking it and considering to just run a Lemmy instance, post the markdown for the blog posts there along with the images. Then I have an image host and a place to let people complain about my shotty writing in one go.

Plus there’s federation visibility as well.

So short questions

1) This a good idea?

2) Are there better options?

3) is it easy enough to set up a single user Lemmy/Piefed instance?

4) Lemmy or Piefed? Which is easier to host

I’m curious, what’s your problem with images in Hugo. I use hugo for my site too and have no issue just including an image like you would with any web page.

I’m probably just stupid.